Over the next few days, Ben and Belle stayed in their own tight knit groups, away from each other. What Lucius had said about Ben had made Belle slightly suspicious of him, and she kept her eyes on him.

Lily had started to settle down about the prefect bathroom incident, but she still didn't enjoy being alone in a corridor or anywhere near that bathroom. She decided it would be better to just use the regular bathroom that was attached to the girls' dormitories than to go to all the trouble of having a bath in the prefect's bathroom.

Unfortunately for Lily though, the rumor of her sleeping with Dumbledore did not die down at all. Lily found her life turning upside down with this silly little rumor. Surely no one could actually believe this rumor, she had first thought when she first heard it. But boy was she wrong. She figured this matter would be taken to the professors to be dealt with.

And sure enough it was. About a week after the rumor had been started, Dumbledore stood up during dinner and the hall went silent.

"There has been a certain rumor going around about a certain student and myself which I would like to announce is not true" Dumbledore said, his eyes twinkling. "Please take into consideration that if you've said anything along the lines of this rumor to her, then please apologize or there will be consequences."

After dinner was finished, the girls along with James, Sirius, Remus and Peter started to walk back to Gryffindor tower together. They walked by a broom closet where they could hear moaning and banging coming from.

Sirius grinned. "Well that's a snogging session if I ever did hear one, and trust me, I've heard them."

Alexis turned and swatted him lightly with her hand and they were all about to keep walking until they heard something else.

"Oh Ben," a girl moaned. "When are you going to dump that stupid Gryffindor, what's her name? Belle? Well, when are you going to tell her it's over and be with me?"

Belle backed up until she hit the wall and she slid down is until she was sitting. Sirius and James turned to the door and started pounding on it, but they guessed it had a silencing charm on it.

"Alohamora!" Lily shouted from across the hallway as the door vibrated and burst open to reveal Ben and another Ravenclaw girl that they had all recognized from Defense Against the Dark Arts. Her name was Cara Brick and at that current moment she was quite scantily clad. Luckily Ben still had all of his clothes on.

The color drained on Bens face when he saw everyone around him and Cara hurried to get her clothes back on. Ben saw Belle sitting against the wall and he looked like he was about to cry.

"Belle, it's not what it seems, I…"

But Belle decided to stop him.

"Don't bother trying to explain yourself Ben" she snapped at him.

"But Belle" he began.

WHAM

Ban sat on the floor clutching his face while Belle shook her hand for a moment, not believing that she had just smoked Ben clear across the face. She suddenly felt a bit better since she had hurt him, but it definitely wasn't as much hurt as there was in her heart at the moment.

Everyone gawked at Belle.

"Woah" Emma began. "Talk about Queen of the Damned."

Ben took hold of Cara's hand and then said "If that's how you're going to be then just forget about us all together, Belle. Cara was always better than you anyways; I just don't know why I didn't see it until now."

The two stalked down the hall in what seemed to be the direction of the Ravenclaw Common Room.

That's when the tears came. "I-I can't b-believe he ch-cheated on m-me" Belle wailed as they all walked slowly down the hallway.

Alexis turned to face Sirius for a moment. "Maybe you should let us handle this for a while until she calms down. Do you guys mind leaving us the common room for about an hour?" she asked sweetly. The four boys all nodded and turned and left the group of girls.

"What are we going to do now?" James asked.

"Upset that you won't be able to watch Miss Evans?" Sirius suggested.

"Shut up" James muttered as they walked along the hallways.

"Why don't you guys practice your animagi?" Remus suggested quickly, not wanting anything to start between Sirius and James at the moment.

The boys agreed and made their way to the Room of Requirements where they had made it their official practice spot. So far all they were capable of was growing a little extra hair, and Peter couldn't even do that much.

Once inside they all read through the books that appeared as usual, to try and figure out what they were doing wrong. One by one they had all stood up in the middle of the room and attempted it once more, the other three watching. Remus kept flipping through the pages rapidly to see if he could help them with any other information.

Nervously, and twitching slightly at the corner of his lip, Peter made his way to the center of the room and pointed his wand at the top of his skull and muttered the incantation.

Suddenly Peter shrank, taking the form of a small rodent. All of the boys gasped and gathered round him as his transformation finished and he was the form of a rat.

"Did either of you expect Peter to be the first one to transform?" Sirius whispered to the other two as Peter skittered back and forth trying to figure out how to turn normal.

Both boys shook their heads no.

"I honestly thought it would be you, James" Remus said and Sirius nodded. "You're top of transfiguration and Peter goes and beats you at something as big as this. You must feel terrible."

"Shut up" James muttered.

"Ooo careful" Sirius said to Remus. "Looks like it's that time of the month for someone right now."

James rolled his eyes and stormed over to a couch and picked up a book and flipped through it continuously. He then took his wand and muttered another incantation towards Peter who turned back into human form.

He was pale and frigid. "I never want to do that again" he whimpered. "It's horrid. I didn't even know how to turn back."

"That's why you research it before hand" James mumbled.

"Should we go back and check up on Belle?" Sirius asked shiftily. "I mean we've been here longer than the girls expected us and I think we should see how she's doing." Sirius looked to the floor.

The boys agreed and gathered their things and headed back up to the common room only to find it empty.

"Well this isn't good. We can't get up to the girls common room, and I really wanted to see how Belle was doing" Sirius said to himself.

James dropped his things and walked right up to Sirius. "What is wrong with you today?" he spat.

"What are you talking about?" Sirius questioned. "I think the real question is what crawled up your ass and died today, Mr. Huffy Pants?"

"Well excuse me if I have a problem with you being in love with Belle when you have a girlfriend, who is a really great girl. Why are you doing this to yourself and her? I know she can tell there's something up. She's like that. You forget she's into that divination stuff and can sense this kind of thing" James roared at him.

Sirius became enraged. "I am NOT in love with Belle!" he yelled. "I'm just worried because she's my friend and I feel bad for her."

"That's bullshit Sirius and you know it!" James yelled. "You've had your eyes on Belle since the train ride, but couldn't make a move because she was already taken. Everyone could see that!"

Remus looked over to the girl's stairs and saw Lily lurking in the shadows, but ignored it and watched the two boys go at it.

"Well what about you, James? You claim you're all over Lily, but you obviously aren't" Sirius paused for a second.

"Do you miss her body, Jamesy-poo?" Sirius hissed at James.

"What are you talking about?" James growled menacingly.

"That night in the Prefects bathroom. I saw you watching her when she was nekkid in that pool when we cursed it, as much as you didn't want to because you just wanted to watch her, didn't you?" Sirius said with an evil glint in his eyes.

"That is IT!" Lily screamed from the stair case. She stormed out to where they were both standing.

"It was you who did that?!" she screeched.

They both nodded solemnly and looked to the floor.

"So you cursed the pool did you Sirius?" Lily asked, trying to contain herself

He nodded. "Sorry Lily" he added quickly.

"You better be" she growled and then turned her attention to James.

"And you, you were watching me while I had no clothes on?!"

He nodded, but did not apologize.

She rolled her eyes and then decided that Belle was not going to be the only one to take charge tonight.

WHAM

She smoked James hard on the cheek. He stumbled backwards onto the couch and doubled over.

"Thanks for the apology that I didn't get, Jamesy-Poo."

Lily started to walk away but stopped for a moment and turned around.

"And don't think that I won't be going to Dumbledore about this."

After Lily left, James stood up. Sirius opened his mouth to speak but James stopped him.

"Don't speak to me Sirius. Just back off now before things get to insane" he said and headed towards the portrait hole again, pulling his invisibility cloak out of his bag and covering himself while exiting.